Not exact matches
I haven't seen any case law centering on this point, as very few
copyright owners have granted DRM - stripping permission — and so to the extent that it is within my power to grant, which it probably isn't at all, I'm okay with anyone who
wants to strip DRM from my traditionally published works as well in order to enjoy any of their fair use rights.
I have two books on Smashwords — Primary one, Mouse Hole http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/57847 You are the publisher and
copyright owner so you can do whatever you
want with your work within the boundaries of Smashwords rules which are quite liberal.
Under the
Copyright Act, the first sale doctrine allows the
owner of a particular copy of a work to sell, lease or rent that copy to anyone they
want at any price they choose.
«I
want copyright owners to succeed economically,» Patry writes, «but I
want them to succeed by satisfying consumer demand, not by thwarting it.»
Depending on the terms of the specific site, content contributors generally either assign
copyright to the site
owner or license the content in a way that allows the site
owner to do exactly what they
want with it.
For the purposes of identifying the
owner, you will
want to focus on certificates of registration issued by the
Copyright Office.
With shorter terms of protection, we wouldn't need 100 page or more reports from the US
copyright office dealing with the «problem» of «orphan works» — material we
want to reuse but can't because the
copyright owner has disappeared.
The people considering themselves defamed have
wanted intermediaries to disclose the names of the authors of the defamation, as
copyright owners have done for infringers.
If the government
wants to save time and money by incorporating a standard, it can pay the
copyright owner and negotiate pricing (e.g. if the CSA price is too high for a standard dealing with something, go to the UL or IEC).
The court stated that it would be unfair to hold the ISP liable for making an extra effort to prevent works which were obviously
copyrighted from being uploaded onto its site, and suggested that perhaps the
Owner could make its
copyright obvious on its photos if it did not
want its photos posted on the ISP.